But what about the great number of girls who are claimed by domestic duties?
Do you abandon them, with a helpless sigh, to be moping and mawkish and unhealthy ?' 'In the first place, there needn't be a great number of unmarried women claimed by such duties.

Most of those you are thinking of are not fulfilling a duty at all; they are only pottering about the house, because they have nothing better to do.

And when the whole course of female education is altered; when girls are trained as a matter of course to some definite pursuit; then those who really are obliged to remain at home will do their duty there in quite a different spirit.
Home work will be their serious business, instead of a disagreeable drudgery, or a way of getting through the time till marriage offers.

I would have no girl, however wealthy her parent, grow up without a profession.

There should be no such thing as a class of females vulgarized by the necessity of finding daily amusement.' 'Nor of males either, of course,' put in Everard, stroking his beard.
'Nor of males either, cousin Everard.' 'You thoroughly approve all this, Miss Nunn ?' 'Oh yes.